A 60-year-old man died at the hooves of a camel at a wildlife center he owned in Tulum, Mexico on Monday, October 13, 2014. Richard Mileski of Chicago was at the Tulum Monkey Sanctuary when a camel escaped from its pen and attacked him.

“When we arrived, the people who were there said (the camel) got out of its stable and attacked him,” Antonio Gomez, a Tulum Emergency Services Spokesman, told the media. “It dragged him, climbed on top of him, was kicking him, biting him and sat on top of him.”

Tulum is a popular tourist destination in Mexico, offering some of the country’s most beautiful beaches – and reports of little mysterious hominoids, the Alux. Source.

Meanwhile on October 10, 2014, an unidentified three-year-old toddler fell 15 feet into the jaguar pit (pictured above) at the Little Rock Zoo in Little Rock, Arkansas. The child was attacked and bitten on the neck by one of the jaguars. Zoo workers fought off the big cats with fire extinguishers to secure the toddler. The child is in critical condition.

The previous jaguar attack at a U.S. zoo happened in 2007 when zookeeper Ashlee Pfaff had her neck snapped by one of the animals at the Denver Zoo. Source.

On October 9, 2014, a 23-year-old man climbed a guardrail at St. Paul’s Como Zoo and apparently was clawed by a cougar. A park employee asked him why he’d done it.

“Everybody gets the urge to do something,” the man replied, according to a police report.

St. Paul police said Brian Casey Phillips of Minneapolis suffered a scratch and didn’t need medical attention Thursday. He was cited for disturbing zoo animals. Police identified Phillips by a Hennepin County Jail bracelet that he was wearing, said Sgt. Paul Paulos, a police spokesman. About nine hours earlier, he had been released from jail, where he had been held since Tuesday after being somewhere else he wasn’t supposed to be – walking on light-rail tracks in a tunnel at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport.

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In 2010, a 2-year-old boy suffered superficial injuries when he was clawed by a cougar at Como Zoo. Witnesses said the boy’s father had lifted him over a guardrail and set him down in front of the mesh enclosure. A cougar pushed through the mesh and scratched the child, police said. No stitches or significant medical treatment was needed, police said at the time. After the 2010 incident, an additional safety barrier was installed, Reinartz said. Source.